Conference 2019 · Melbourne

Genetic Epilepsy Team Australia’s 2019 Genetic Epilepsy Conference

The 2019 meeting on Saturday May 4th was a great success with over 100 attendees in person and hundreds more around the world going via live-stream. It was a great opportunity for families, researchers and clinicians to come together to hear the latest research in to genetic epilepsy and discuss plans for developing treatments for these debilitating conditions.

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Portrait of Dr Emma Palmer

Dr Emma Palmer

Dr Palmer is a Clinical Geneticist working at the State-wide Genetics of Learning Disability Service, diagnosing the cause of inherited intellectual disability and counselling families. She is a Conjoint Lecturer and PhD student at the University of New South Wales investigating the application of genomics for severe epilepsy and intellectual disability. She is a Visiting Scientist in the Translational Genomics Group at the Garvan Institute.

In additional to a busy clinical load and two small children, Dr Palmer has growing research expertise with multiple international and national research conference presentations, invited presentations and first-author publications and reviews.

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Making Sense of Rare Genetic Diagnoses: Working with Families to Inform and Support